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summary: "One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and thousands of other organisations – will not add a feature to its default configuration until that feature can be delivered under the conditions defined by the project in accordance with its principles. User-controlled execution. The user must be able to choose where inference takes place: on the local computer, on an infrastructure directly controlled by the user, or on a service chosen independently by the user. A default setting that silently redirects to a single provider is not a choice. No content may leave the computer without authorisation. The content of documents is a user’s asset and, in many implementations, is also legally protected material: medical records, case files, tender documents and student data. Transmission must be the result of a user’s decision and not behaviour carried out in the background by the application. No telemetry of any kind. LibreOffice does not collect usage dat…"
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# Yes, no AI is now a feature

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**Published:** 2026-09-28T09:58:26.000Z
**Category:** Releases
**Topics:** open\-source

## Summary

One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26\.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and thousands of other organisations – will not add a feature to its default configuration until that feature can be delivered under the conditions defined by the project in accordance with its principles\. User\-controlled execution\. The user must be able to choose where inference takes place: on the local computer, on an infrastructure directly controlled by the user, or on a service chosen independently by the user\. A default setting that silently redirects to a single provider is not a choice\. No content may leave the computer without authorisation\. The content of documents is a user’s asset and, in many implementations, is also legally protected material: medical records, case files, tender documents and student data\. Transmission must be the result of a user’s decision and not behaviour carried out in the background by the application\. No telemetry of any kind\. LibreOffice does not collect usage dat…

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/>)
- [Discussion](<https://lobste.rs/s/sxcz4v/yes_no_ai_is_now_feature>)